The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week the formation of a new Nicotine Steering Committee that will be tasked with reevaluating and modernizing FDA’s policy and regulatory approach to nicotine and nicotine products to address tobacco addiction. This new committee formation follows the announcement from the FDA this summer for a new…
Read More »This month’s U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vital Signs features HIV infection, testing, and diagnosis. The report indicates improvement in the overall frequency of HIV testing, and that about 85 percent of people with HIV in the country know they have the virus. 15 percent of people with HIV, however, do not…
Read More »The National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) and the AIDS Institute recently released a fact sheet titled Preventing Infectious Diseases Amid the Opioid Epidemic. The fact sheet explores the close relationship between and challenges associated with the opioid, hepatitis, and HIV epidemics. The fact sheet is available here.
Read More »The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) this week released a 20-part series of short videos titled Prevention Conversations. The videos highlight current issues related to the ongoing opioid epidemic and prevention of opioid misuse and overdose. The videos are available here.
Read More »This afternoon, U.S. Health and Human Secretary Tom Price, offered his resignation to President Trump. The President is expected to designate Don J. Wright, the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and the Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion within the Department of Health and Human Services, as Acting Secretary.
Read More »The Legislature is currently at the mid-point of their house of origin committee hearings for the year, and continue their mad pace before they reach the final deadline for bills to move out of their policy committees and on to their respective fiscal committees by April 28. Meanwhile, amendments are papering the Capitol, including a…
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